Dan Quinn's Performance As Defensive Play Caller & Who Stays And Who Goes From Commanders Offense? | 'Take Command'
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🗓️ 7 January 2026
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| 1:02.5 | Welcome back to Take Command with Logan Paulson. |
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| 1:06.6 | So another of the end-of-year press conference moments that I found really interesting from |
| 1:10.6 | Dan Quinn was when he was asked about potentially calling defensive plays again next year. |
| 1:16.3 | The expectation, certainly the speculation has been that they're going to go get a grown-up stud defensive coordinator. |
| 1:23.6 | And there's some legit dudes who have become available, by the way. |
| 1:26.3 | I mean, Jonathan Gannon was fired in Arizona, good de-coordinator. Rahim Morris was fired in Atlanta, who you were with in Atlanta, and was the assistant head coach to Dan Quinn for years with the Falcons. They know each other very well. You know, he's already available. There are other guys that may or may not come available that were former head coach as longtime D.C.'s. But I bring this up because when Dan Quinn was asked about it, in his end of year presser, he was still open to the idea. He said he's keeping an open mind to possibly calling plays. It's not something he did in Atlanta or early on here because I don't think it's his preference. But he said, I'm going to do what the team needs. And the ex-interviews essentially are going to inform him on if he thinks that's what he needs to do now. Where do you weigh in on that? Because while their defense got better and I thought he did a really good job, I said earlier in the year, like I wanted him more involved. His defenses have never been outside of the top five, basically, when he was exclusively a coordinator. And when he's been a head coach, they've never really been better than like 14th. So the more involvement, the better. That said, he did not do a good enough job, in my opinion, with like clock management and timeouts. And that's not all on him. But they were one of the worst in the league at keeping timeouts in the final week of the season. I know it's a third string quarterback. You've got none left with about 11 minutes to go in a close game. So like, I think it is harder to do some of those things when you're also a coordinator. Where are you at on this? Yeah, I mean, you know, knowing Dan and knowing what he did in Atlanta for the year |
| 2:53.4 | and a half that I was with him, like his superpower is the stuff that we've talked about on |
| 2:56.9 | this show, like his ability to build relationship, build connection, build a culture. And I know |
| 3:02.4 | that word gets thrown around a lot, but, you know, if you haven't been in Dan, in a culture built by Dan Quinn, you haven't been in a culture, man. Like, it's a different type of thing. And I think it's a testament. You can see the results of that culture with all the adversity this season underwent and his ability to kind of manage the ship. So now, when you talk about defense, like, I think Dan's a hell of a coach, right? |
| 3:26.2 | He's on the details. He's a good communicator. He's a good teacher. He thinks he, um, he tries to |
| 3:33.6 | improve in that area every single year. And so I just look at the difference between the defense as it was |
| 3:40.0 | under the previous defensive |
| 3:41.8 | coordinator and what it is now. |
| 3:43.3 | And like, I don't have a lot of reason as to why, but it was drastically different and |
| 3:48.5 | drastically more efficient in terms of getting guys in the right positions and getting |
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